43-44 ANKI

The books had been piled on the shelves in a haphazard fashion. The government's approach to the problem was haphazard.

An inadvertent omission. Perhaps I misled you, but it was quite unintentional.

I'm convinced there's a jinx on this car. The injury jinx has struck Real Madrid.

I don't want to jinx anything by making promises.

The whole family seemed to be jinxed.

I'm afraid your son had a slight mishap in the playground. The group suffered an extraordinary series of minor mishaps.

I didn't mean to startle you. The explosion startled the horse.

She looked at him with startled eyes. He looked startled.

A startling discovery. Startling revelations in the Sunday papers. Her skin was a startling white.

He strayed into the path of an oncoming car. Her eyes kept straying over to the clock on the wall. My mind kept straying back to our last talk together. We seem to be straying from the main theme of the debate.

The police are looking for a stray girl. These people catch stray dogs and sell them. Several journalists were killed by stray bullets. I just heard some stray sentences.

I noticed a stray and took it home. This stray needs a new home.

According to superstition, breaking a mirror brings bad luck. Most cultures have their superstitions.

Superstitious beliefs. I'm superstitious about the number 13.

Her voice wobbled with emotion. This chair wobbles. Yesterday the president showed the first signs of wobbling over the issue.

The handlebars developed a wobble. The team is experiencing a mid-season wobble.

Australia's wheat crop is likely to be lower than forecast this year. The current crop of trainees. She has her hair cut in a short crop. He had a thick crop of black curly hair.

His hair had been cropped short and he looked different. The horses were quietly cropping the grass. The potatoes cropped well this year. The river valley is intensively cropped.

The room was decorated with flowers and greenery.

Police evacuated nearby buildings. Employees were urged to evacuate their offices immediately.

Details of the accident are scarce. Food was becoming scarce.

A time of scarcity. A scarcity of resources.

The economy is at last beginning to recover. He is unlikely to ever recover his legal costs. He is unlikely to ever recover his legal costs. The team recovered its lead in the second half. It took her a few minutes to recover consciousness.

I know I can trust her in any circumstance. We want to work towards improving the often difficult circumstances in which people find themselves. We were simply thrown together by circumstance on the long journey.

The case against him was largely circumstantial. Their problems were circumstantial rather than personal.

They found a way of circumventing the law.